Fedora Core 2 Test 2 - delayed
Leonard den Ottolander
leonard at den.ottolander.nl
Fri Feb 27 14:42:50 UTC 2004
Hello Russell,
> If the NSA people were going to do something nasty why would they do it in
> code that's got their name on it when they could send in code from
> random_user at hotmail.com?
Because such a large patch coming from random_user would raise some
eyebrows, and small patches are not easy to hide such nasty buglets in.
All it takes is a single overflow in the right location... The Trojan
horse was also a "friendly gift".
It's just you can't be careful enough with respect to trusting (foreign)
security agencies ;-) .
Leonard.
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